Sun shines on jockey Lee at Royal Ascot
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June 23, 2026
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ASCOT, United Kingdom (AFP) — Last October, jockey Clifford Lee came within a “millimetre” of dying when he broke a vertebra in a motorbike crash. On Friday he rode Venetian Sun to victory in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.
The 30-year-old Englishman was out of action for five and a half months after the accident, with the surgeon saying “he was within less than a millimetre of killing himself”.
Lee gave Venetian Sun a fine ride in the Group One race, a year to the day the filly owned by Premier League side Brighton’s owner Tony Bloom won the Albany Stakes at the meeting.
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